Ironically this week we are succumbing to gravity, reading the book that is the source material for a musical that is the source material for a pair of major...

What if a play didn’t need a “plot” to move you? What if all it needed was a gun on a wall and a bunch of artists besot with...

It’s the conclusion of our show-within-a-show dedicated to Emily Wilson’s new translation of Homer’s The Iliad. We read it a few books at a time and had a more...

Sing, goddess, of the creativity of Madeline Miller, author of The Song of Achilles. This romance/war history deftly combines the existing canon of Greek epic and myth with a...

Misanthropy, anxiety, and societal alienation? In this economy?? This week’s book and author aren’t the most uplifting podcast subjects we’ve ever covered, but our discussion ended up being an...

The Wind in the Willows is a classic novel for young readers. But, uh, why? Is it the animals that are basically just Edwardian gentlemen? Is it the deep...

It’s election season here in the US (please go vote if you’re reading this on November 4th or 5th)! And to uh “celebrate” we have chosen to put together...

An FBI agent seeks counsel from an imprisoned serial killer on how to apprehend an active serial killer. That’s the elevator pitch for the *delicious* thriller Silence of the...

I Am Legend is a foundational block for a lot of modern zombie fiction (even though its monsters are technically vampires). But it’s much less interested in the dog...